The Netherlands returns 'Java Man,' thousands of colonial-era fossils taken from Indonesia

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People gather around a stone statue inside of a building. It is roped off by a red rope.

The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a commission ruled they were removed in the colonial era "against the will of the people," the education ministry announced on Friday.

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